grafbase
Overview
Grafbase is a Rust-based GraphQL Federation Gateway supporting MCP (Model Context Protocol). Features include JWT authentication, rate limiting, entity caching, and OpenTelemetry integration for logs, traces, and metrics.
Capabilities
- • resource handlers
- • authentication support
- • database integration
- • github integration
- • workflow automation support
Best For
Grafbase: Rust-based GraphQL Federation Gateway with MCP support, offering JWT auth, rate limiting, and OpenTelemetry integration.
Decision Snapshot
Docs
8 links
Config
1 strong hints
Capabilities
5 key capabilities detected
- • GitHub stars: 1225
- • Forks: 69
- • Source provenance count: 1
- • Active signal: Updated this week from lifecycle signals.
- • Last seen: 4/15/2026
- • Published: 3/15/2026
Features
- • JWT authentication and federated authorization
- • Rate limiting, operation limits, and trusted documents
- • Entity caching and automatic persisted queries
- • Health check endpoints and request lifecycle hooks
- • OpenTelemetry integration for logs, traces, and metrics
- • … and many more
- • **Official Documentation** \- Complete API reference and guides
- • **GraphQL Federation Guide** \- Learn federation concepts
Use Cases
- • Use in tools-oriented MCP workflows.
- • Capability coverage: resource handlers; authentication support.
Supported Clients / Integrations
- • resource handlers
- • authentication support
- • database integration
- • github integration
- • workflow automation support
Compatibility Signals
- • GitHub: supports (Detected in parser config/capability hints.)
Notes / Requirements
- • Primary language: Rust
- • License: MPL-2.0
- • Documentation coverage: high
- • Parser coverage score: 0.90
- • Source provenance includes GitHub discovery
- • Source feeds: GitHub Search API
- • Topic cluster: general
Official Links
- Website
- Repository
- Documentation 1 (/docs)
- Documentation 2 (/docs/gateway/configura...)
- Documentation 3 (/extensions/rest)
- Documentation 4 (/docs/gateway/extensions)
- Documentation 5 (/guides/introduction-to...)
- Documentation 6 (/docs/features/extensions)
- Documentation 7 (/docs/gateway/installation)
- Documentation 8 (/docs/guides/introducti...)
Source Information
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